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Lee este post en español Stories are one common highlight across all Latino cultures. We share them repeatedly, and each time they tend to get more and more exciting. But exciting for whom…and at [...]

This blog post is sponsored by Santa Barbara’s Master Clean. Thank you Master Clean for donating the FDA-approved, EPA-registered cleaning and sanitizing Pure Maintenance service to all our [...]

In today’s world, technology is always with us. And as technology seeps into every aspect of our existence, it is changing how we live.  Even when “unplugging,” we’ve still got our [...]

Coping Pre-Covid When I came to Sanctuary Centers I was a wreck. I couldn’t deal with myself, let alone a global pandemic. I didn’t know anything about mental illness. In my life, in my inner [...]

It’s been over a month since COVID-19 arrived in America.  Life has changed a lot in the last week, let alone the last 30 days. By now, three out of four Americans are on lockdown… if not more. [...]

Coronavirus is here… and the time has come for us to take it seriously.  Of course, it’s possible that—when we’re looking back on this years from now—our preventative measures may look [...]

Animal therapy has been around for a very long time. The ancient Greeks understood the salutary effects animals had, and the Roman Emperor Caligula was so fond of his horse Incitatus that he was [...]

While therapy is taking on new and exciting forms, animals have long been used for supportive and therapeutic purposes. People experience something different with animals, they feel they can be [...]

Since the beginning of time, humans have depicted their lives through a variety of creative means. Therapy comes from the Greek word “therapeia,” meaning to cure through dance, song, poetry, and [...]

Two years ago this week, the Thomas fire laid the groundwork for the Montecito mudslides. On January 9th, 2018, half an inch of rain overwhelmed Santa Barbara County in less than five minutes. [...]